Quite content with the way my life was heading, I looked forward to everyday with God. I was making my dreams come true, going after what I wanted and trying to make a positive impact on the lives of others. Of course I knew I wanted to find the right person at some point in… Continue reading Worth the wait…
Take a look at these lyrics from Katy Perry’s lovely song, Firework… Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind wanting to start again? Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin like a house of cards, one blow from caving in? Do you ever feel already buried deep? 6 feet under screams but no… Continue reading The 24-hr Ignition
Every other headline today is about a high profile celebrity cheating on their spouse or partner. In recent weeks we have had Tiger Woods, Ashley Cole, John Terry, Wayne Rooney and even the seemingly innocent Mark Owen all admit (or not deny) to having multiple affairs with numerous amounts of women. Going back a few years Michael Douglas had… Continue reading No need for repentance?
When we were children, discovering the wonders of the world, expectations, desire and hope were a natural part of us. We were fascinated by fairytales and hoped that our prince would one day come; we hoped that there would be a pot of gold at the end of our rainbow and that good would always overcome evil. We never expected anything less. When things didn’t initially go… Continue reading Hope hard (again)!
I started to go to church regularly by my own decision from when I was 14 years old. I was young and very naïve. I had my pre-conceived ideas of God and what it was to believe. However, this frame of mind that I had regarding the things of God was gradually being unpicked, broken… Continue reading Have Your Own Faith!
'Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime'? But what if all you want is a “fish”? What if you’ve been putting all your energy into getting that “fish” for years? What if someone has been trying to teach you how… Continue reading Give a man a fish!
I’ve been in Africa now for a year and it has been a learning curve to say the least! I came here in December 2012 and have literally had to build my life from scratch out here. Ghana to be precise. I had to find a place to live, find a job, build a marriage, etc. What a… Continue reading Get the wine out!
Meet Sue-ellen. This 36 year old, Essex born mother of three, gets up from her king size divan every morning and gives her husband and kids a kiss before driving off to work in her black Audi TT. Suited in the latest jacket from D&G, coupled with her Prada bag and Jimmy Choo shoes she tunes into Capital FM before speeding off. She sings, “I’m every woman” to herself whilst planning the tasks she… Continue reading Why I rate the Atheist…
“I will see you on Sunday, God willing”. This is a sentence that I remember my Grandma saying when I was a child. Sometimes I would think, why wouldn’t He want us to see our Grandma? Only later on as I started to know God for myself did I start to understand what that sentence means. Do we really understand… Continue reading Gods will be done?
Yep, I said it! But believe me, I know what you are thinking when you read that title because I felt it too when I heard it for myself not so long ago! It’s a bitter pill to swallow, in fact a downright painful slap to the face but also a necessary truth. It’s the first… Continue reading God doesn’t understand!
